COVID Mandate Logic

[Michie]

EDITORIAL: The decision whether to vaccinate or not should be a free and informed choice, not something that’s mandated or coerced by our governments.


Catholic teaching regarding the moral duty to be vaccinated is straightforward — it should be a free choice. As the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) noted in a December 2020 guidance explaining the moral acceptability of using COVID-19 vaccines, “vaccination is not, as a rule, a moral obligation and … therefore, it must be voluntary.”

Over the course of the ongoing COVID pandemic, political leaders and public-health officials in the U.S. and other developed countries have conformed only to a limited extent with this moral principle. True, vaccination itself has not been universally mandated, except in Austria, which is poised to do so next month. But in many jurisdictions, including the Vatican, the principle of voluntary vaccination has been egregiously compromised by the imposition of mandates requiring vaccination in order to participate in a wide range of public activities — with exceptions often available only for medical reasons, not on grounds of conscience.

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COVID Mandate Logic

 

[Trusting in Him]

The vaccine is not totally effective according to the publically released test results and this latest variant, although it's more infective, does not appear to be causing such serious effects on those who are currently contracting it. It does seem as though mandating compusary vaccinations probably is unlikely to be vitally necessary at this current point in time.

Are these governments thinking that forcing people to take a vaccine which is only partially effective against something which is not causing any serious problems any more, makes enough sense. It sounds a bit questionable at this stage! Almost no one is able to get vaccinated in poorer countries at all, so where's the justification and the reason to force everyone to do this?

 

[timothyu]

Even vaccinated people can spread the virus. Furthermore each dose of vaccine has reduced the longevity of immunity. But actually with Omicron being an anti-virus virus in itself, overcoming Delta and switching the virus to upper respiratory instead of lower thus severely reducing the risk and putting it in the yearly flu category, activating T and B cells leading to longer natural immunity, perhaps it is a good thing to now catch it.

 

[timothyu]

Are these governments thinking that forcing people to take a vaccine which is only partially effective against something which is not causing any serious problems any more, makes enough sense.

It does when you consider it was politicians and businessmen in the medical industry that have done the advertising and controlled the narrative for their own purposes.

 

[chevyontheriver]

Catholic teaching regarding the moral duty to be vaccinated is straightforward — it should be a free choice. As the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) noted in a December 2020 guidance explaining the moral acceptability of using COVID-19 vaccines, “vaccination is not, as a rule, a moral obligation and … therefore, it must be voluntary.”

That is simple enough. In accord with the Nuremberg Code too. They state that medical treatments are to be voluntary. As in not mandated.

 

[Sword of the Lord]

Studies recently came out showing natural immunity was better than the vaccine in dealing with Delta.